Post by stewartedwards on Oct 2, 2011 3:30:02 GMT 9.5
Been listening to opera and youtube brought up Paul Potts Nessun Dorma. Now Paul is an ordinary guy in an ordinary job (mobile phone salesman) and he did this www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA&feature=related
Whether you like his voice or not look at how his voice made the audience react, especially:-
1. The young lady at 1.09 (only a few seconds into singing) 2. The older lady at 1.33 (half a minute of singing) 3. All the audience at the end and one of the judges crying, and at 1.58 he even gets a standing ovation from young ladies.
Such is the power of music to touch hearts. Lots of esoteric lessons fall out from this, sadly for both good and bad.
Any thoughts anyone on the esoteric aspects of this mundane aspect of life?
A Simple Man, who tried and failed to reilluminate this planet.
Slogging Scotsman Ma’at Ankh Re
Who am I trying to kid for I can’t even resolve family darkness. Whoever is next to step up, please do.
In this case it was more a matter of touching emotions than hearts. Nevertheless it was very strong and (because) it attracted a degree of sponsorship from the Great Mother.
There was large impulse from the Great Mother through rock music in the 1960s with Elvis and the Beatles having particular influence on women. There are news reels showing the women with tears streaming down their faces when the crowd noise was so great that they could not hear the performance.
A friend went to one of the Beatles concerts in the US and said it changed her heart greatly. (She was able to distinguish the solar plexus chakra from the heart chakra.)
Yes, and speaking from experience--having spent most of my life working as a musician, music can certainly raise, or lower ones vibrations, as Stewart said for good or bad. I
I frequently use music as a lead in to meditation, and I recall one particular experience during the singing of a chant. It was at a Taize service in Gawler. As you may know the Taize Community is an ecumenical religious order which developed a simple, but very effective type of chanting in the vernacular. Listen to some and go with the flow, you'll see what I mean.
On this occasion I was chanting quietly away with others when I realized I was out of the body. The transition was so smooth I didn't quite realize what was happening until I saw myself watching my body, conscious of the continuing chant, and then something else. I realized I was chanting softly in Irish (which I hadn't done since the 1970s.) I was chanting the Lord's Prayer and then, as that finished I carried on chanting. I think the words were still Irish but I cannot remember exactly what.
I did not even know 'til then I still remembered any of the elements of Irish I had known in my teaching days in that country. After a while I came back to the body, again smoothly. No one seems to have noticed anything; they were still chanting.
